skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wonder about the programmers who feel threatened by LLMs. The vast majority of my daily work in software engineering does not remotely boil down to "write code for a discrete isolated task". It's all about solving difficult problems in a complex, interconnected system. Feature requests which require previous assumptions to be thrown out and new architectural decisions to be made.

Can current LLMs help with that? Almost never. What about in 5-10 years? Probably a little more, but I'm extremely skeptical that they'll ever reach beyond the tip of the iceberg.
> my dad bought an Apple ][ for home use but none of my friends could afford anything like that

Apple's pricing hasn't changed that much. ;-)

> Introductory price: US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,530 in 2023)

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
Racist and illegal yes. But common. All of FAANG use discriminatory quotas behind the scenes for promotion and hiring, and often the lower level employees have no idea because these actions are done quietly by individuals or only discussed in verbal meetings to leave no records. Individuals make decisions that are discriminatory because rewards for them (senior managers and executives) are based on quotas (diversity goals). For example, in a few of these companies you aren’t eligible for a senior promotion unless your team has certain minimums on protected traits.
Honestly, I go to local market maybe once a year. As lovely as they are, I just can't adjust my life to the rhythm of those small shops, supermarkets are way too convenient.

Besides that, I don't really have a reason to go cafes or bars. Spend an hour of my day to have 10% chance of talking to someone and then again 10% of actually enjoying the conversation? No thank you, especially not after an exhausting work week. I'd rather put my coffee into a thermos and drink it on a bench in a park outside the city. Or at home. God I love drinking at home.
"Sealing a battery compartment in a way that doesn't hinder replacement is a solved problem,"

Right, splash resistance through to full hermetic sealing is well developed engineering, so it's a non issue. That's not to say one has to go to extremes for a phone. For example, there's no reason why a phone cannot be constructed in a modular fashion where the key electronics is essentially sealed against the ingress of moisture and its peripheral connections, jack, mic, speakers, battery connectors are part of the case.

For maintenance, simply snap out the electronics and put it in a new case. Similarly, jacks are easily made waterproof with connections going through hermetic seals. Diaphragms on mics and speakers can actually be part of the seal and so on. Compromises can be made to suit the circumstances, and none of this is complicated manufacturing.

Making phones more robust against the environment makes sense, it would not only extend their life but dovetail neatly into Right-to-Repair laws—laws which I reckon will eventually become inevitable.

Phone manufacturers will be dragged kicking and screaming but they've already had it too good for too long at customers' expense.
Write less absurd software in your free time.
> It was also during a time where keyboard interaction was still the primary means of interface. Even with the creation of the Lisp machines and their large graphic displays, those displays were dominated by "terminal" windows.

In Symbolics Genera a Lisp Listener (the window which runs a combination of a REPL and a command line interpreter) is a full graphics window with the same drawing capabilities as PostScript. It's also a command interpreter taking Lisp objects as arguments to commands.

The UI isn't using much direct manipulation with the mouse (like dragging a file between folder windows), though for example in the graphics editor one can do that for graphics objects. One also interacts with graphical scrollbars. Much of the UI is based on displaying textual and/or graphical objects AND running commands on them. Application windows all have a (often visible) command interpreter, where interacting with objects is done via commands on objects (and not only on text), using textual commands, mouse gestures or command menus.

The Listener (as do other applications) also records all output and keeps the relationship with the objects which a drawn/printed.

Thus the Genera UI does not use "toString", but calls PRESENT (or similar), a function which outputs Lisp objects in various ways, records the output (text and graphics) and keeps the relationship between object and output. Thus the Listener is not only a graphical stream, but also a graphical object store (-> it stores all output using a complex object-oriented framework). (similar -> McCLIM -> https://mcclim.common-lisp.dev -> example for tools/apps https://mcclim.common-lisp.dev/excite.html ).

One can return/print a data structure in the Listener and then one can point with the mouse at sub-objects and run commands on them (like 'describe'). This makes a separate inspector mostly unnecessary, though there is a inspector window. As there is a debugger window with backtrace, code display, etc. There is also a PEEK window, which is used to inspect things in the OS: Windows, File Systems, Memory, Processes, Network, ...
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Yeah.

Unless he means that a pound of lead is heavier than a pound of feathers.
Physical lifetime of the product would be a start.

Don't like it? Don't build cloud-bound landfill fodder.
If only developers could figure out how to build old buildings instead of new ones! /s
HPP (Hudson Pacific Properties, mentioned in the article) is the largest commercial real estate owner in the bay area.

Check out their YoY finances: https://i.imgur.com/qEmTBMd.png

It's pretty staggering.
Phi3 is already available in browser here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/FL33TW00D-HF/ratchet-phi

Disclaimer: I am the author.
I feel like all these articles/research are written from an extreme American perspective where people never move unless it’s from the couch to the car. You basically can’t exist in a European (and many others) lifestyle without getting this much exercise every day.
IDK why, but BZIP2 seems to do somewhat better that other compression algorithms for natural language text:

$ curl https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11/pg11.txt | bzip2 --best | wc
246 1183 48925

Also, ZSTD goes all the way up to `--ultra -22` plus `--long=31` (4GB window— Irrelevant here since the file fits in the default 8MB anyway).
my phd's in biophysics and I work in the biotech industry. I do understand (to a limited degree) how the immune system works and how different people react to drugs.

My doctor is an expert in giving advice to people based on her org's current recommendations. I also independently looked at what little information I could glean and don't see anything deeply wrong with her suggestion. I also can easily change my mind, and with a single trip to my normal pharmacist (twice in ~6 months) and get vaccinated at any time that I choose. I'm lucky enough that I can take 3 days of sick leave each time so I'm not trying to work while experiencing side effects (for example, I lost about 2-3 days of work when I had pneumo+flu vaccine a few years ago).

public health and vaccines is a complicated subject; I am no expert, but I can read into the literature and talk to people who work in the field. Please do not assume I am simply blindly following a mistaken doctor's suggestion.
Update to 24.04?
Is there any car with sodium batteries sold in the US? I am ok with cheap, 100-mile range small sedan that I can commute in and charge overnight.
It would be cool if people started testing it in their CI alongside their existing targets. It's already a somewhat common practice to recommend adding a nightly target to CI to help find compiler bugs, and this seems like a similar situation where contributing in a small way multiplied across a large number of projects can be significantly impactful.
Underground caves, like underground tunnels, are so much more interesting than the above-ground ones.
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Thank you - definitely always nice to see people trying new things in this space. It might be a bit risky to rely on a wheelchair that doesn't have a good support ecosystem, though, unfortunately.

This actually touches on something that seems to have changed in the past 10-15 years: in my experience, shops now absolutely refuse to touch wheelchairs that they did not themselves provide. I'm lucky that I can generally do my own maintenance, because even something simple like a deep cleaning is met with worries of voided warranties, etc. etc. I'm not sure when this changed, but throughout the aughts I was able to get service at shops in multiple different cities without any issues.
They don't do YouTube sponsors but they sure plastered their ads all over Chicago. Literally everywhere.
Definitely true, especially considering the original Apple II, whose base model came with 4K of RAM and didn't include a floating point BASIC.

Of course the real Apple II competitor from Sinclair was the ZX Spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
Well no wonder, he keeps sneaking in with baggies and stealing them.
I wasn't trying to state that my assumptions were right. Just adding some color to the story.

I am fully aware that the $/sqft wasn't negotiable. That's why we left. On top of not budging on the rent, they were also not providing any of these other incentives/perks to make it worth while.

Having the space occupied because you gave enough incentives to equate to lower rent on the renter's books vs vacant and visibly demolished has got to be better in justifying the $/sqft. Then again, I'm not in real estate and am okay with my soul that this doesn't make sense to me.
(earnest voice, not scoffing)

How would that differ from the status quo? In both cases, the rent accepted is lower and the new valuation is based on it? Except now you can't defer pain at all?
Heresy. 2K was never a bad choice.

lol. J/k

For real tho, every Windows version after 3.x was bad at first. Then people moved, and then the next one was worse.
Not in a vocational program, but by that time “shop” or “industrial arts” class for the typical student was no longer common.
Lilipsum is good. Used to be free but I think it’s still under $5.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/littleipsum/id405772121
Thank you for the feedback! This route is definitely something for us to consider.
That's not how that works, like at all. In any context, for any subject.
If you need Google to code in Python, have you really learned Python?
I like this too! Simple and minimal but there is an additional step to click "Generate"

I want to remove that step as well haha
I had the same problem my entire life, but recently doing much better. It seems several factors overlap and make myself turing complete procrastinator. The few of factors: adhd, too much interests, perfectionism, too much gestalts, multithreaded thinking, colorful n-dimensional infinite imagination, bored too easily, easily exhausted, flashes of "genius" ideas, lack of discipline, and so on, the easiest solution is just medication and completely giving up on everything, every project and just doing very few things and nothing else
The practical way to do this is to train a custom dictionary with a normal compression algorithm.
That's actually a good idea. It is also a pet peeve of mine so I added "variations".

Your idea is way better! Thanks
I was thinking today that if we had to pick a latin motto, it would "lorem ipsum".
Thanks for the feedback. One reason for the username is for cleaner profiles when publishing - https://learn.lowercase.app/publishing/documents.html#adding...
Right. Even if you aren’t in a regulated area (of any kind), if you have any sort of reasonably sophisticated accounting software you should _at least_ be able to produce a list of businesses with which you exchange money and go from there.

A car manufacturer? How is that not an already built report on the ERP? Even if it is Tesla we’re talking about. My small business has three digits of records in the “Partners” table in our ERP and we can produce an Excel spreadsheet of all our vendors + contact info in less than two minutes.
I’ve been styling Atom feeds with no bother since 2019, and worked with RSS feeds briefly in 2020 and likewise experienced no issues.

The two browsers you were complaining about are IE, long dead, and Firefox, which removed its feed reading functionality in 2018. I can only assume that you’re misremembering when you last tried this, because what you’re describing simply doesn’t happen any more.
China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
I joined landlord groups to persuade them to be better people to their tenants
No. If they were trying to accomplish what you were suggesting, you kill the first whistleblower early on to prevent others. That motive doesn’t make sense after there are already 30 whistleblowers.
AI is not replacing the same function as a calculator does when solving a math problem.

Using AI to “help” learn to program is replacing the person’s effort thinking through the problems fully and is ultimately going to stunt their learning.
97MB for the Worms 3 demo felt like an eternity.

So what games are in this LLM? Can it do solitaire yet?
I would rather typing each letter our than pay $5 for a Lorem Ipsum Generator haha
I have been in the industry for 25 years. I have hired dozens of people, including recently. We are not even allowed to ask someone's race, let alone consider it when hiring. The only people who think things work the way you and the other commenter do are delusional right wingers.

DEI is about inclusion (that's the I) of people who have traditionally been excluded from opportunities. It's not about keeping anyone else out or down. Try actually educating yourself instead of repeating brain dead nonsense.
I’m sure Discord spends more money on lawyers than I do, so I’ll take any edge I can get.
Let’s just ban all manufacturing, commerce and transportation in western countries while we all try to breathe less. That’s the only way win the war on carbon.
Not really. You can still pay your bills with checks and file your taxes on paper and make doctor and dentist appointments by phone. Sure computers offer convenience but are not essential especially for a person who grew up without them.
> ...they finally had their first year of profit at a whopping 1.83 million.

It's almost as if your reference was generated by some half-baked AI bot that doesn't know how to contextually interpret comma/period numerical delimiters in financial statements of US companies.

From authoritative source[1], Uber's 2023 bottom line reads $1.887 billion.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000154315124...
Jargon and shared context are barriers for newbies. In a new field they simply don't exist yet. The avenues for accidentally excluding people (or intentionally but I like to be charitable) don't exist yet.
> I never had an Assembler for Timex 2068

I had never heard of the Timex 2068 before, but apparently it was a variant of the ZX Spectrum. Could it really run CP/M (in addition to BASIC and Spectrum games?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068
yes, almost certainly Europe. You can see it's a J3068 connector on the end of the cable. J3068 is basically a 3-phase version of J1772 and is standard for Europe.

The crimped ferrules on the wires is also much more common in Europe vs USA
You can do it without a TEG: https://sci-hub.se/10.1109/48.972077

Essentially you use a fluid which freezes at the bottom of the ocean and loses volume (some kind of paraffin)

And then you hook it up with some actuated valves and N2 accumulators so the volume change and energy harvesting happens "out of phase" - at the surface, you can deflate an external bladder and sink, and at the bottom, you use some stored energy to reinflate the bladder

With a large enough volume you get near infinite range, only have to pay for payload and any onboard electronics

this report has some more info on the absurd efficiency of thermal gliders: https://escholarship.org/content/qt1c28t6bb/qt1c28t6bb_noSpl...
Large scale grid project are planned years in advance so unlikely to eat up all the production as factories will need a constant demand source to clear inventory and have regular cash flow so I think home batteries like Tesla powerwall are going to have big boom soon specially as people getting paid less and less for their home solar output from the grid. If I am not wrong chinese largest battery manufacturers have started looking at home batteries as some car manufacturers were complaining about not enough demand for ev.
Depends on whether you're talking about a single battery cell or a pack.
Your comment is so utterly preposterous I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not.

It reads like the complaint box of a volunteer open source developer who isn't providing you free bug fixes and features fast enough.

They provided a free service for 16 years and I'm sure it was in the ToS that they are under no obligation to do so.

And for people wondering why we need ToS and license agreements for free stuff and lawyers to write them, this is why.

This is why we can't have nice things.
And that's a pretty big caveat! Helpful framing to highlight who'd be most likely to benefit from this.
The many different ways I've backdoored your dependencies
I sometimes try the free chatgpt when I run into a problem and it's just hilarious how terrible it is. Loves to go around in circles with the same made up solution that has no basis in reality, using functions in libraries that would be great if they actually existed.
A good PhD isn't just about learning how to solve problems but also how to quickly ramp up & identify worthwhile ones.

To give a feel, I might have read 20-200 papers for every new one that I came up with, I'd write a few a year, and the pressure was to, every year, reliably come out with at least 1 new thing that'd resonate with top-tier peer review. Imagine having to come out with a new community-approved intellectual product every year, 5 years in a row!

The result is that PhD skills are great for quickly soaking in everything about a new space, figuring out what's important, and combining grit + clarity to solve it. That helps for figuring out product/market, executing on an early roadmap, and at a meta-level, how to become an entrepreneur. Same-but-different for when switching from 0-1 to growth.

Being young works for those too. There's likely a lot more stumbling and pain, but also more energy and lack of awareness that all these avoidable inefficiencies seem normal and fun

IMO easier and less risky is get a co-founder who is experienced in the space. There are other trade-offs and nothing in life is guaranteed, but why play life on hard mode?
Doesn't look like the music video Sora produced a month ago[0]. Just the second I guess?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f75eoFyo9ns
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For a senior-level professional? Yes, it does matter.

I wouldn't be comfortable with an accountant who couldn't do practical arithmetic in their head, or a surveyor who didn't have a fluent grasp of trigonometry and the ratios or function values for common angles.

Of course -- I don't care about the people working for them as a bookkeeper or assistent. They can be button monkeys as much as their boss lets them, but I also wouldn't expect those folk to reach very high in their career. Not everyone's going to, and a disinterest in and lack of technical fluency is a darn good predictor.

Your teacher was giving good advice about building skills and internalizing knowledge, because those are what contribute to mastery of a craft; maybe you were just being too pedantic or cynical to hear it?
How is all this lawyer stuff related to a chat app?
That feels intuitively right. Humans are not particularly strong, fast, or agile. But given enough time, we can outrun almost every other animal. If endurance is what we are good at, it makes sense that we need more physical activity than most animals.
Phi 1.5 isn't quite there is it? Caught it having some inner dialog.

What does that mean? Instruct: I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by "wutt". Output: Oh, I'm sorry. I meant "what does that mean?" Instruct: No problem, "wutt" means "that doesn't make any sense". Output: Ah, I see. Thank you for clarifying! Instruct: You're welcome! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. Instruct: I'm glad I could help! Instruct: I hope you continue to enjoy learning about language arts. Instruct: You're doing a great job! Keep up the good work! Instruct: Have a fantastic day! Instruct: Goodbye! Instruct: Goodbye!
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
My pixel 6 was able to run tinyllama and answer questions with alarming accuracy. I'm honestly blown away.
Sure if you like mistakes.
Most "comes-with-the-car" USA level 1 chargers are actually capable of accepting 240v so operating as a ~3kw level 2 charger if you're okay with hacking a different plug on to it (or using an adapter which may be controversial...)

https://www.gm-volt.com/threads/2016-volt-120v-evse-is-l1-l2...

I've confirmed this first-hand with several different models.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... << Here's the app I use.
Related[0] (18 points, 9 days ago, 19 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155381
For me being a bbs sysop is how I connected with the local tech community. Some of them were criminals, others were just other kids and teens. Back then there weren't many ways to find like-minded nerds if you were not in college, so I took what I could get.
This is the kind of thing that we should be using LLMs to automate and scale up. Not product promotion spam.
Can’t say I have noticed any drop in quality at all. I do have a fairly detailed set of custom instructions set.
If only reparations had a remote chance of becoming policy in this country… not a chance.
I understand the sentiment, but this is why we have the free software sustainability crisis. https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/open-source-has-a-sustainabi... https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/sustainability/sustainability....

The time taken to type out Lorem Ipsum would be worth more than $5. I know you have other options in this case, but why would you prefer to waste your time than spend money?
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It's not a free service they ran out of the goodness of their heart. It's a service the consumer paid for when they bought the thermostat.
From what I've read, Tesla has developed all of it's internal software - for CRM but ... also for accounting.

And it seems that a lot of information is heavily restricted. It's a major red flag. Especially when the CEO may be one of the last senior people left having access to some material information, and said CEO is a drug addict with a very documented history of lying.
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However, you can never guarantee the font text will be rendered in, so if you precalculate you may damage things. Web fonts may fail to load for a variety of reasons. Some users will force their own chosen fonts. In Firefox: Setting → Fonts → Advanced → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above. I’ve done that for the last four years, as it makes the web so much better.
could add a hotlinkable video and a picture.

maybe a different page with some inline css font-family picker with size and color.
There are a number of channels on YouTube which read old English texts in the actual Old English, the way they’d be read at the time. For some reason I enjoy this a lot. Could be because I like to track down the etymology of words, and understand why the language is the way it is, rather than just accept it in its current state. I feel like this helps me to better connect with the deeper meaning of the words and “feel” of the the language. GPT4 is pretty great at etymology btw.